Stats: QRUs Most Important People in History

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Rank	Hint	Answer	% Correct
3 (-2)	Proposed Messiah of Judaism, inspired Christianity	Jesus of Nazareth	99%
1 (+1)	Founder of Islam and the Rashidun Caliphate	Muhammad	99%
8 (-2)	Started World War II	Adolf Hitler	96%
5 (+2)	Founder of Mongol Empire, promoted trade, rape and religious tolerance	Genghis Khan	93%
22 (-9)	Led the USSR through World War II	Josef Stalin	92%
27 (-17)	Writer of the Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx	92%
17 (+9)	Communist revolutionary, first head of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin	92%
19 (+18)	Discovered Relativity	Albert Einstein	91%
21 (-7)	Dictator of China, caused the Cultural Revolution	Mao Tse-tung	90%
30 (-25)	Found a sea route to the Americas	Christopher Columbus	89%
2 (+1)	Deeply influenced Chinese thought	Confucius	89%
28 (-4)	Revolutionary and first president of the United States of America	George Washington	89%
29 (-12)	Fought for Indian Independence, contributed to nonviolent resistance	Mohandas Gandhi	89%
32 (+2)	Major contributor to the Theory of Evolution	Charles Darwin	87%
73 (-64)	Major figure of the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	87%
64 (-18)	Won the American Civil War, abolished slavery in the USA	Abraham Lincoln	82%
12 (+8)	Founded the Roman Empire	Augustus	82%
13 (+64)	Astronomer, furthered the Scientific Method against major hostilities	Galileo Galilei	82%
24 (-1)	Classical philosopher, founder of the Academy	Plato	82%
10 (-2)	Improved printing decisively	Johannes Gutenberg	81%
84 (-68)	Created an empire that reached from Macedonia to India	Alexander the Great	80%
40 (+12)	Pioneered radioactivity	Marie Skłodowska Curie	79%
69 (+19)	Prominent figure of the American Civil Rights Movement	Martin Luther King Jr.	79%
7 (+5)	Conquered and modernized most of Europe	Napoleon Bonaparte	79%
31 (-4)	Fought for the independence of South America	Simón Bolívar	79%
85 (-40)	Virgin Queen who oversaw a British Golden Age	Elizabeth I	78%
62 (-31)	Captured Gaul, prepared the end of the Roman Republic	Gaius Julius Caesar	76%
18 (+4)	Laid the foundations of classical mechanic, advanced the Scientific Revolution	Isaac Newton	75%
11 (+27)	Father of Western Philosophy	Aristotle	74%
41 (-16)	Powerful Frankish and Holy Roman Emperor	Charlemagne	74%
36 (-1)	Allowed Rome to become a christian Empire	Constantine	70%
16 (+17)	Major contributor to Germ Theory, Vaccination and mildly heated milk	Louis Pasteur	70%
57 (-36)	Conquered England for the Normans	William the Conqueror	69%
46 (+27)	Conquered the Aztec Empire	Hernán Cortés	68%
38 (+40)	Rediscovered Heliocentrism, triggered a revolution named after him	Nicolaus Copernicus	67%
56 (-)	Father of the modern Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	62%
88 (-)	Leader of the Hunnic Empire	Attila	61%
95 (-53)	Modernized and expandend Russia	Peter the Great	60%
26 (+36)	Discoverer of Genetics	Gregor Mendel	59%
72 (+20)	The Swan of Avon, arguably the most influencal dramatist	William Shakespeare	59%
53 (-14)	Called the "Father of Economy"	Adam Smith	58%
87 (-)	Founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	58%
15 (+4)	Founder of Taoism	Laozi	56%
45 (+27)	Conquered the Inca Empire	Francisco Pizarro	55%
52 (+35)	Highly influental in Computer Science	Alan Turing	50%
4 (0)	Main teacher and buddha of Buddhism	Siddharta Gautama	50%
82 (-25)	Founder of Geometry	Euclid	47%
25 (+3)	Reinterpreted and spread Christianity through Europe	Paulus of Tarsus	46%
55 (-)	Enlightened Monarch, modernized Prussia and made it a Great power	Frederick the Great	44%
78 (-)	Inventor of the Periodic Table	Dmitri Mendeleev	43%
35 (-24)	Founder of the first Persian Empire	Cyrus the Great	42%
9 (+6)	Unified China	Qin Shi Huang	40%
81 (-32)	Successor of Muhammad, focal point of the Shia-sunni split	Ali	38%
42 (+19)	Influencal European mathematician and philosopher, known for his "Meditations"	René Descartes	38%
86 (-)	Byzantine Emperor, partly restored the Roman Empire	Justinian the Great	37%
96 (-)	Influencal physicist who worked on electricity, thermodynamics and the compass, calculated the absolute zero of temperature	Lord Kelvin	37%
20 (+55)	Influental contributor to the Scientific Method and Empiricism	Francis Bacon	31%
37 (-)	Originator of Quantum theory, has a time named after him	Max Planck	27%
49 (-)	Regarded as the first computer programmer	Ada Lovelace	26%
80 (-)	Greatly expanded the Ottoman Empire and reformed its laws	Suleiman the Magnificent	26%
14 (-)	Philosopher of German Idealism, inspired Marxism and Fascism, a.e.	G. W. F. Hegel	24%
94 (-)	The "perfect prince", reformed Portugal, major figure of the Age of Discovery	John II of Portugal	23%
97 (-)	"First citizen of Athen" and founder of the Athenian Empire	Pericles	23%
33 (+47)	Revolutionized microscoping	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	22%
58 (+7)	Conquered Constantinople and ended the Byzantine Empire	Mehmed the Conqueror	22%
70 (-)	Uncertain pioneer of quantum mechanics	Werner Heisenberg	22%
66 (-)	Influencal philosopher of the enlightenment, popularized the "general will"	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	21%
99 (-)	Discoverer of Nuclear Fission	Otto Hahn	20%
51 (+28)	Considered father of Modern Chemistry, also contributed to Biology	Antoine Lavoisier	19%
60 (-)	Build the first nuclear reactor, dubbed the "architect of the nuclear age"	Enrico Fermi	19%
59 (-)	Discovered Galaxies and the expanding of the Universe	Edwin Hubble	18%
61 (-)	Main figure of chinese legalism, highly influental during the Qing dynasty	Han Fei	18%
90 (-22)	Pioneer of Electromagnetism	James Maxwell	16%
74 (-)	Tennō who led Japan into modernity	Meiji	16%
92 (-)	Contributed to a wide array of philosophies and sciences, most notably calculus and calculators	Gottfried Leibniz	15%
76 (-)	Great emperor of the mughal empire	Akbar the Great	12%
50 (+5)	Figured out how to make artificial fertilizer	Fritz Haber	12%
98 (-)	Most influencal physician of antiquity	Galen	11%
44 (-)	Inspired the Protestant Reformation	Jan Hus	11%
54 (-)	Cofounder of and major contributor to Sociology	Max Weber	9%
47 (+9)	Potentially saved hundreds of millions by improving crop yields	Norman Borlaug	9%
34 (-)	Pharaoh dubbed "the Enemy", contributed to Monotheism	Echnaton	8%
48 (-)	Forerunner of Epidemology and Medical hygiene	John Snow	8%
91 (-)	Founder of the Roman Republic	Lucius Junius Brutus	8%
67 (-)	Spanish King called "the Wise", fostered science, arts and the Castillian language	Alfonso X	7%
6 (-)	Improved papermaking decisively	Cai Lun	7%
79 (-)	Controversial forerunner of the Enlightenment, Rationalism and Determinism	Baruch de Spinoza	6%
77 (-)	Founder of geography, calculated the circumference of the Earth and the tilt of its Axis	Eratosthenes	6%
75 (-)	Homeless begger in his twenties, Emperor of China in his thirties, founder of the Ming dynasty	Zhu Yuanzhang	6%
65 (-)	Cofounder of modern chemistry and the experimental scientific method	Robert Boyle	5%
68 (-)	Founder of modern bacteriology	Robert Koch	5%
89 (-)	Cofounder of quantum chemistry and molecular biology	Linus Pauling	4%
71 (-)	Proposed Messiah of Judaism, started a revolt that resulted in the jewish diaspora	Simon bar Kokhba	4%
43 (-)	Sunni muslim theologican, either started or ended the Islamic Golden Age	Al-Ghazali	3%
39 (-)	Major contributor to early psychology	Wilhelm Wundt	3%
93 (-)	Called the "Father of Arab philosophy"	Al-Kindi	2%
83 (-)	Sexologist and pioneer of LGBT activism	Magnus Hirschfeld	2%
23 (-)	Main philosopher of Mahāyāna Buddhism	Nāgārjuna	2%
63 (-)	Major figure of the revival of Hinduism and Indian nationalism	Swami Vivekananda	2%
100 (-)	Pioneer of aviation and aeronautical engineering	George Cayley	1%

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